Luis Suarez put in one of the finest performances of his glittering career this afternoon by scoring a stunning hat-trick in the eagerly-awaited El Clasico match at the Nou Camp.

Barcelona went into today’s match three points ahead of their bitter rivals and looking to put the death knell into Julian Loptegui’s spell as Los Blancos manager, and it wasn’t long before the floodgates opened for the home side.

Messi, of course, was missing from today’s game with a fractured arm, and if this is how Barca perform without their talismanic figure what hope is there for the rest of the teams in Spain, and indeed Europe?